Kogod School of Business students have ample opportunities to learn about their chosen path in business from faculty who possess meaningful real-world connections. By taking courses from professor of finance Tim Timura, students turn knowledge into action. A self-described proponent of experiential learning theory, Professor Timura spent decades researching how to teach finance in a way that best prepares students for the future.
“The foundation of my programs is to allow students to begin their journey in their lived worlds and learn by doing,” Timura said. “Through dialogue, research, debate, experimentation, and reflection with their peers, Kogod students grow with new knowledge they can readily use.
Professor Timura first took an interest in experiential learning while completing his dissertations at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Pennsylvania. While studying how to best communicate finance material, he worked with educational theorists David and Alice Kolb, who pioneered the modern understanding of learning by doing. “I was introduced firsthand to these pedagogies, and it immediately made perfect sense,” Timura recalled.